Digitizing the paper of record
Archiving digital newspapers at the New York Times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7478795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharon Ringel (0000-0002-7400-8967, University of Haifa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 245-261 |
| Publication date | 2021-06-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14648849211023849 |
| OpenAlex | W3167080166 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 32 |
This study uses three archiving efforts at the New York Times as a means to analyse the newspaper as an archival object. I study the traditional ‘morgue’ of physical clippings and photos, the Times’ joint project with Google Cloud to digitize its photo collection, and the TimesMachine interactive digital archive, which made scanned editions of printed issues from 1851 to 2002 publicly available online. Based on interviews with staff and analysis of documents describing past and present newspaper archiving practices, it is clear that the digital archive is not a comprehensive copy of an analogue original. There are a significant number of documents stored in physical archives that have not been translated to digital, and whose loss would be detrimental to historians and media scholars alike. Moreover, even the documents that have been scanned and made available as digital objects do not perfectly mirror their analogue equivalents, meaning that information loss is inherent to the digitization process. As active producers of the past for contemporary purposes, these online news archives serve as cultural gatekeepers, actively shaping journalistic practice and reframing current events in reference to the past
Cognitive reframing · Digital media · Digital storage · Digitization · Library science · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Multimedia · Newspaper · Object (grammar · Sociology · Special collections · Telecommunications · World Wide Web · Archaeological Research and Protection · Computer Science · Digital and Traditional Archives Management · Photography and Visual Culture · History
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Blockchain archival discourse
Dealing with digital intermediaries
The platformization of cultural production
Democratising or privileging
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Memory in Journalism and the Memory of Journalism
What is News
Journalistic Uses of Collective Memory
What is an Archive
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Objects of journalism and the news
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Archives, records, and power
The Structure of Foreign News
Social Control in the Newsroom
The Platformization of the Web
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |